Dennis Quaid - Details

Biography

Dennis QuaidDENNIS QUAID, one of America’s most charismatic actors, next stars in two features: Norman Jewison’s HBO Films version of Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner with Friends; and John Lee Hancock’s feature film The Rookie, based on the true story of pitcher Jim Morris, who went from being a high school baseball coach to a major-league ballplayer.

The actor made his directorial debut for TNT in 1998 with the poignant drama Everything That Rises, in which he also starred.

Quaid starred with Mickey Rooney for director Anthony Page in both the Emmy Award-winning telefilm Bill and its sequel, Bill: On His Own.

In 1984, he starred opposite his brother Randy in the off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard’s True West, followed by a subsequent staging of the production in Los Angeles.

Events

  • 9th April 1954 - Birth